Music offers a new insight into human cognition. The musical play with sounds in time, in which we share feelings, gestures and narratives, has fascinated people from all times and cultures. The author studies this semiotic behaviour in the light of research from a number of sou…
New perspectives on music and gesture
by Dineen, Phillip Murray, Zbikowski, Lawrence M., Windsor, W. Luke, King, Elaine, Ginsborg, Jane, Graybill, Roger, Trevarthen, Colwyn, Kuhl, Ole, Gritten, Anthony, Rink, John, Dogantan-Dack, Mine, Clayton, Martin, Delafield-Butt, Jonathan, Gold, Nicolas, Leante, Laura, Rahaim, Matt, Schogler, Benjamin, Spiro, Neto, Fatone, Gina, Godoy, Rolf Inge, Luck, Geoff
fromSEMPRE studies in the psychology of music
"This book explores what speech, music and other sounds have in common. It gives a detailed description of the way perspective, rhythm, textual quality and other aspects of sound are used to communicate emotion and meaning. It draws on a wealth of examples from radio (disk jocke…
Drawing on a wide range of phonetic, linguistic, pragmatic, semiotic and musicological sources, this book concentrates on the communicative theory of sound.
This text explores what speech, music and other sounds have in common. It gives a description of the way perspective, rhythm, textual quality and other aspects of sound are used to communicate emotion and meaning.
Main description: Music intrudes to our most intimate subjectivity, thus making it a privileged field to which so-called "existential semiotics", a new theory and philosophy developed by the author himself, may be applied. Using new semiotic methods and analyses as the fulcrum o…
"This book presents theoretical, critical and analytical reflections on key topics of contemporary music including acoustic, electroacoustic and digital music, and audiovisual and multimedia composition. Six essays by Paolo Paulo C. Chagas approach music from different perspecti…
This book presents theoretical, critical and analytical reflections on key topics of contemporary music including acoustic, electroacoustic and digital music, and audiovisual and multimedia composition. Six essays by Paolo Paulo C. Chagas approach music from different perspectiv…